The Cycle and Other Poems
by Ninette de Valois
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When I was a child, all I wanted was to be a ballerina. I went to a school whose patron was Margot Fonteyn, and who trained dancers for La Scala in Milan. I was quite good, and I was convinced that this would be my career, until I shot up to almost 6 feet, an impossible height for a ballerina in an Italian corps de ballet. But ballet has always remained close to my heart, and when I saw this book in an specialist book seller in Melbourne, I just had to have it. Ninette de Valois, the founder of the Royal ballet and Godmother of English ballet, I just had to have it. This woman was in large part responsible for the career of Margot Fonteyn, my heroine.
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Photos by Nikolaus van der Pas
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